• Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. · Oct 2000

    Case Reports

    A case report of comorbid eating disorder and factitious disorder.

    • I Mizuta, T Fukunaga, H Sato, M Ogasawara, M Takeda, and Y Inoue.
    • Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Medical School, Suita-City, Japan.
    • Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2000 Oct 1; 54 (5): 603-6.

    AbstractA review of the literature on comorbid eating disorder and factitious disorder reveals that they are very rare. In this report the authors present the case of a 26-year-old Japanese female, who, in the midst of treatment for eating disorder, was found to be fabricating her physical symptoms, by injecting unclean water into her intravenous bottle. As a result she was diagnosed with factitious disorder.

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